Re: [Help-bash] Closure concept in bash

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/31/12 5:59 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> So they don't even have a way to get the kind of "cascading inheritence-like" 
> scope you get from bash? I find function wrappers with callees that see 
> locals 
> of a caller and then convieniently destroy themselves when returning to 
> really 
> clean up the solutions to some otherwise hard problems, which wouldn't be 
> worth the trade-offs in another langauge.

David Korn is adamant that ksh's sort-of-static scoping is better, to the
extent that he has threatened to not accept any Posix specification of
`local' that doesn't specify that scoping.  There's no way using Posix
functions, and no way using ksh functions except by sprinkling `export'
all over the place, to get the behavior you want.

Chet
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